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Teen Media: Hollywood and the Youth Market in the Digital Age
Valerie Wee
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• Author(s): Valerie Wee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Largely neglected by Hollywood in the early 1990s, the youth market began receiving increased attention ...
View full detailsSelected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay: Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife
John Jay, Sarah Livingston Jay, Landa M. Freeman
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• Author(s): John Jay | Sarah Livingston Jay | Landa M. Freeman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) This collection of letters chronicles the ...
View full detailsKing Richard II
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Akasha Classics • Publisher Imprint: Akasha Classics • BISAC: GeneralThe young King Richard has legitimately inherited the throne, yet he rules with self-serving arrogance, neglects his subjects and s...
View full detailsKing Richard II
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Akasha Classics • Publisher Imprint: Akasha Classics • BISAC: GeneralThe young King Richard has legitimately inherited the throne, yet he rules with self-serving arrogance, neglects his subjects and s...
View full detailsThe Sympathetic Medium
Jill Galvan
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• Author(s): Jill Galvan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Channeling & MediumshipThe nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter...
View full detailsA Shameful Business
James A. Gross
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• Author(s): James A. Gross • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn a book that confronts the moral choices that U.S. corporations make every day in the treatment of their worker...
View full detailsRomantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology
Noah Heringman
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• Author(s): Noah Heringman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryWhy are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain a...
View full detailsStar Trek as Myth: Essays on Symbol and Archetype at the Final Frontier
Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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• Author(s): Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the "Prim...
View full detailsThe Oral Tradition of the Baganda of Uganda: A Study and Anthology of Legends, Myths, Epigrams and Folktales
Immaculate N. Kizza
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• Author(s): Immaculate N. Kizza • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a wind...
View full detailsThe 1972 Detroit Tigers: Billy Martin and the Half-Game Champs
Todd Masters
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• Author(s): Todd Masters • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History After winning the 1968 World Series, the Detroit Tigers looked to be sliding their way into obscurity. Though ...
View full detailsThe New Finnish Theatre
Jeff Johnson
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• Author(s): Jeff Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism With its impressive variety of theater, Finland is a superpower of performing arts. Finnish the...
View full detailsThe War of 1812 in Person: Fifteen Accounts by United States Army Regulars, Volunteers and Militiamen
John C. Fredriksen
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• Author(s): John C. Fredriksen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other) This work reproduces fifteen War of 1812 manuscripts, including diaries, memoirs, a...
View full detailsThe Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing
Mike Resnick, Barry N. Malzberg
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• Author(s): Mike Resnick | Barry N. Malzberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Writing - General Two prolific and award-winning science fiction writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg,...
View full detailsUrsula K. Le Guin's Journey to Post-Feminism
Amy M. Clarke, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Amy M. Clarke | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The first book-length treatment of Le Guin's feminism, th...
View full detailsEdward Albee: A Literary Companion
Phyllis T. Dircks
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• Author(s): Phyllis T. Dircks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who's Afraid o...
View full detailsThe Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern
Keith Devlin
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• Author(s): Keith Devlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & PhilosophyIn the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chan...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma
Norman C. McClelland
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• Author(s): Norman C. McClelland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed cov...
View full detailsThe Making of a Spy: Memoir of a German Boy Soldier Turned American Army Intelligence Agent
Gerhardt B. Thamm
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• Author(s): Gerhardt B. Thamm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerh...
View full detailsRagged Dick -Or- Street Life in New York with Boot-Blacks
Jr. Alger Horatio
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• Author(s): Jr. Alger Horatio • Publisher: SMK Books • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books • BISAC: Action & AdventureRagged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, about a poor bootblack and his rise to middle-class comfort and respectability...
View full detailsCombat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War
Thomas E. Hanson
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• Author(s): Thomas E. Hanson • Publisher: Texas A&M University Press • Publisher Imprint: Texas A&M University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Korean WarIn the decades since the "forgotten war" in Korea, conventional wisdom has hel...
View full detailsBack to Heaven: Selected Poems of Ch'on Sang Pyong
Sang Pyong Ch'on, Brother Anthony of Taize, Young-Moo Kim
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• Author(s): Sang Pyong Ch'on | Brother Anthony of Taize | Young-Moo Kim • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThese poems by "the happiest man in the world" are full of light ...
View full detailsChinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Roger Des Forges, Minglu Gao, Chiao-Mei Liu
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• Author(s): Roger Des Forges | Minglu Gao | Chiao-Mei Liu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAre walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachroni...
View full detailsPrinciples of Poetry
Sakutaro Hagiwara, Chester C. I. Wang, Isamu P. Fukuchi
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• Author(s): Sakutaro Hagiwara | Chester C. I. Wang | Isamu P. Fukuchi • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: RhetoricThis work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri...
View full detailsStriking with the Ballot
Michael Pierce
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• Author(s): Michael Pierce • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOHistorians have typically thought of Popu...
View full detailsUttering Trees
Norvin Richards
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• Author(s): Norvin Richards • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA study of the interface between syntax and phonology that seeks deeper explanations for such syntactic problems as case phenomena and...
View full detailsVisioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater
Thomas D. Looser
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• Author(s): Thomas D. Looser • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to...
View full detailsThe Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
Scott Atran, Douglas L. Medin
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• Author(s): Scott Atran | Douglas L. Medin • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAn analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relati...
View full detailsMore Than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan
Janice Matsumura
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• Author(s): Janice Matsumura • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: ChineseThis work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942-1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journal...
View full detailsSending the Ship Out to the Stars
Je-Chun Park, Chang Soo Ko
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• Author(s): Je-Chun Park | Chang Soo Ko • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: ChinesePark Je-chun is a major poet in Korea today. His works are marked by a poetic imagination and a sensibili...
View full detailsThe Lioness Roars
Yenna Wu, Yenna Wu
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• Author(s): Yenna Wu | Yenna Wu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis anthology offers translations of seven stories and one novella from the 17th and 18th centuries, wit...
View full detailsDragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China
Robert J. Antony, Jane Kate Leonard
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• Author(s): Robert J. Antony | Jane Kate Leonard • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralDragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that ex...
View full detailsA Handbook to Classical Japanese
John Timothy Wixted
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• Author(s): John Timothy Wixted • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseEmerging from materials the author developed while teaching, A Handbook to Classical Japanese draws on t...
View full detailsNegotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform
Jennifer Rudolph
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• Author(s): Jennifer Rudolph • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaNegotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reformexplores the nature and fun...
View full detailsLullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam, 1965-1966
Franklin Cox
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• Author(s): Franklin Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.S. Marine experience at war in Vietnam, this memoir recounts the experiences of a ...
View full detailsCormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion
Erik Hage
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• Author(s): Erik Hage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Cormac McCarthy, the author of such works as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and T...
View full detailsThe Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Jack H. Lepa
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• Author(s): Jack H. Lepa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War A significant part of the Civil War was fought in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, especially in 1864...
View full detailsBricks, Sand and Marble: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947-1991
Robert P. Grathwol, Donita M. Moorhus, Us Army Center for Military History
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• Author(s): Robert P. Grathwol | Donita M. Moorhus | Us Army Center for Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)Includes full color maps and illustrat...
View full detailsThe Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad
Ron Briley
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• Author(s): Ron Briley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings Examining baseball not just as a game but as a social, historical, and political force, this colle...
View full detailsChess Results, 1956-1960: A Comprehensive Record with 1,390 Tournament Crosstables and 142 Match Scores, with Sources
Gino Di Felice
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• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world--individ...
View full detailsChess Results, 1951-1955: A Comprehensive Record with 1,620 Tournament Crosstables and 144 Match Scores, with Sources
Gino Di Felice
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• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world--individ...
View full detailsCommerce on Early American Waterways: The Transport of Goods by Arks, Rafts and Log Drives
Earl E. Brown
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• Author(s): Earl E. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - General Colonial pioneers began entering the logging and forestry industries in great numbers along t...
View full detailsEdd Roush: A Biography of the Cincinnati Reds Star
Mitchell Conrad Stinson
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• Author(s): Mitchell Conrad Stinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This biography of Edd Roush, Indiana-born deadball batting king, centers on the events of the 1919 Black Sox Wo...
View full detailsThe Functions of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity
Sarah Lynne Bowman
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• Author(s): Sarah Lynne Bowman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoreti...
View full detailsMaking the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930
J. K. Van Dover
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• Author(s): J. K. Van Dover • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Ham...
View full detailsCaped Crusaders 101: Composition Through Comic Books, 2d ed.
Jeffrey Kahan, Stanley Stewart
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Kahan | Stanley Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This updated and expanded textbook inspires a greater appreciation for literature ...
View full detailsThe USS Carondelet: A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters
Myron J. Smith
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• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil W...
View full detailsMiddle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien
Bradford Lee Eden
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• Author(s): Bradford Lee Eden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The twentieth century witnessed a dramatic rise in fantasy writing and few works became as pop...
View full detailsMedicine in the Old West: A History, 1850-1900
Jeremy Agnew
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• Author(s): Jeremy Agnew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History The healing arts as practiced in the Old West often meant the difference between life and death for American pioneers. Wh...
View full detailsThe Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music
Virgil Moorefield
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• Author(s): Virgil Moorefield • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Recording & ReproductionThe evolution of the record producer from organizer to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop an...
View full detailsIntimate Exposure: Essays on the Public-Private Divide in British Poetry Since 1950
Emily Taylor Merriman, Adrian Grafe
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• Author(s): Emily Taylor Merriman | Adrian Grafe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often s...
View full detailsThe Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science
Cretien Van Campen
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• Author(s): Cretien Van Campen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest s...
View full detailsDocuments of American Democracy: A Collection of Essential Works
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This reference work presents 27 key documents from the historic origins of the United States government ...
View full detailsThe Baseball Filmography, 1915 through 2001, 2d ed.
Hal Erickson
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• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Since the first baseball movie (Little Sunset) in 1915, Hollywood has had an on-again, off-again affa...
View full detailsRefugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982
Larry Clinton Thompson
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• Author(s): Larry Clinton Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia The fall of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to communist armies in 1975 caused a massive outpouring of...
View full detailsLouisianians in the Western Confederacy: The Adams-Gibson Brigade in the Civil War
Stuart Salling
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• Author(s): Stuart Salling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The Louisiana Brigade served the Confederacy in the Army of Tennessee, battling on the western fronti...
View full detailsElias Nandino: Selected Poems, in Spanish and English
Elías Nandino, Don Cellini
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• Author(s): Elías Nandino | Don Cellini • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin American Though Latin America has a strong tradition of poetry, many of its best poets remai...
View full detailsTo Secure the Liberty of the People
Eric T. Kasper
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• Author(s): Eric T. Kasper • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryAs the notoriously reluctant author of the Bill of Rights, James Madison has had a profound ...
View full detailsCreating the Nation: Identity and Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth-Century
David L. Cooper
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• Author(s): David L. Cooper • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionOffering an incisive new study of literature and nationalism, Cooper ex...
View full detailsBrown in Baltimore
Howell S. Baum
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• Author(s): Howell S. Baum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsIn the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. ...
View full detailsRace and the Modernist Imagination
Urmila Seshagiri
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• Author(s): Urmila Seshagiri • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshRace has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in ...
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